Ohio State twice revises university policy on Indigenous land acknowledgments this semester

Ohio State has twice this semester revised its policy on land acknowledgements, including whether professors can include them ...
Medicine Buffalo

UB launches SUNY’s first Indigenous studies major

BUFFALO, N.Y. – The Department of Indigenous Studies in the University at Buffalo’s College of Arts and Sciences continues to build upon the momentum of its initial Mellon Foundation grant funding, ...
WDIO

More Indigenous youth are learning to spearfish, a connection to ancestors and the land

HAYWARD, Wis. (AP) — Ganebik Johnson started learning traditional Ojibwe songs when he was about 2 years old. He’d hang around listening to his uncle sing, or observe elders, or even pull up music on ...
Colorado Public Radio

His Cheyenne ancestors were pushed out of Colorado in the 1800s. Now he’s among the leaders of Colorado’s Indigenous land back movement

Hundreds of years after most of Colorado’s Indigenous tribes were forcibly removed from the state, a movement emerges to ...
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LAUSD adopts land acknowledgment, recognizing connection to Indigenous peoples

The Los Angeles Unified School District Board voted unanimously Tuesday to add a statement to its website acknowledging the role of the region’s Indigenous communities. The land acknowledgement ...
Grist

The key to better climate outcomes? Respecting Indigenous land rights and autonomy.

Conservation efforts are more effective when Indigenous peoples and local communities are given more autonomy and involvement over their lands. That’s according to a new study published this month in ...

This Indigenous Photographer Documented Native Americans’ Unique Connection With Nature — And It’s A Must-See

The homeland ecologies that have sustained Indigenous communities for countless millennia are essential parts of their ...
The Daily Pennsylvanian

Students concerned for future of Indigenous studies program a year after coordinator retires

Students continue to express concern over the future of Penn's Native American and Indigenous Studies minor a year after the program's coordinator and only tenured professor retired. In 2023, The ...
The Conversation

Activism on foot: When Indigenous activists walk the land to honor their past and reshape their future

Meaghan Weatherdon has received funding from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada, the Northern Scientific Training Program, the Ontario Graduate Student Scholarship fund, the ...
YES! Magazine

My Innate Connection to Stolen Land

Red oak and red maple populate the living landscape of Mount Owen in the Northeastern U.S., along with birch, white pine, and beautiful old sugar maples. Native medicinals like common violet and rare ...
PBS

Activists tap a sweet Indigenous tradition to connect youth of color in Detroit with the outdoors

DETROIT — Tucked into Detroit’s 1,200 acre Rouge Park is one of the nation’s largest urban sugar maple tree groves in the country. But for years, the trees went unharvested. While making syrup from ...
Oregonian

More Indigenous youth are learning to spearfish, a connection to ancestors and the land

EDITOR’S NOTE: This is part of a series of on how tribes and Indigenous communities are coping with and combating climate change. HAYWARD, Wis. (AP) — Ganebik Johnson started learning traditional ...